The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

Things don't change. We change.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.